Scranton offense bails out Aceves

Finally found a Tampa Yanks blog for you … okay fine, actually long time RABer MrJigginz found it and sent me the link, and I’m assuming he found it on Mike Ashmore’s site. Anyway, it’s called 1 Steinbrenner Drive, and make sure you at it to your bookmarks. Now we just have to find someone down in Charleston.

Double-A Trenton was washed out. No makeup date has been announced, but both teams are off tomorrow. If they don’t make it up then, they’ll have to wait until Binghamton comes back to town for a three game set on May 8th.

“Yankees on the mound: The star of tonight’s game was certainly the Yankee starter Dellin Betances. Betances showed great stuff in this one, striking out 7 Flying Tigers on route to his first win of the season. He struggled with his command early on, throwing a few pitches off line and allowing a pair of walks. After he settled in, he was dominant. Throughout the ball game, there were many swings and misses, even if the at bat wouldn’t end in a strike out. He had a great curve ball working which made a few batters look silly at the plate. Amaury Sanit came in to pitch the 7th and 8th innings, both scorless. Jonathan Ortiz came out in the ninth to pick up the save while recording one strike out.”

Any reasoning behind that? I know he’s 30 but he had a descent showing last year with the Zephyrs.

Drew

whoops, *decent. he did not descend.

Andy In Sunny Daytona

It’s called a “Fueedian Slip”. Embrace it.

El Generalissimo

Mike, with Damon Sublett playing like Pete Abe would at 2nd base… where does he rank on the prospect list… is he a huge letdown to date, having a slow start, or not much to begin with, or any other combo you can put together…?

pat

I can only assume thats Nick Swisher blasting Alanis Morissette in the background of Damon’s interview.

Drew

Lol yea I posted that on the game thread. I wish they had something else blasting.

I wish we had a whole boatload of pitching prospects who could make a huge impact at the major league level or we could trade for those corner outfield types……oh wait, just trust Cashman. I wear it.

WWCD

What Would Cashman Do

pat

Heh. I am firmly in the just trust cashman boat as well. Fryer might end up being something and we got his ass for free.

Drew

love me some cash

Drew

ISn’t Joba in line to be our #2 starter with tomorrow’s start?

El Generalissimo

Just because of where someone is in an order doesnt mean there a certain number.

AJ may be our #2, but is now 4th, doesnt matter

Joba is in between CC and Wang, because they wanted to sandwich him between two guys who ususally give you 7 innings plus.

El Generalissimo

*they’re

Drew

I know he’s not our “#2”, I worded it poorly. I’m assuming we’re not just going to skip him net time around. In which case he’ll probably be facing our opponents #2. Also, I don’t understand the logic in delaying his start by one day. Before the season started I had assumed we would skip his first turn which meant he wouldn’t pitch until this Thursday or so.

btour99

Joba was pushed back a day to have CC start the opener, but just because Joba’s pitching after CC right now, doesn’t mean it will stay that way.

Also, Joba is currently facing everybody else’s #1 starter if the our rotation and everyone else’s stays this way – which is highly unlikely. Check around the league. Lots of teams have their aces going. Even the Royals, with Yankee Killer Gil Meche! Scurred!

Good to see Austin Jackson is continuing to hit well at Scranton. Hopefully he stays on track for the entire season and can become a starter in the bigs next year.

Then our two catching prospects Montero and Romine each had hits too.

I’m loving the coverage of the minor league teams. Great work with that.

YankeeScribe

Don’t be surprised if Jackson is starting in CF for the Yanks before the end of the season. Gardener’s spring training offense looks like a mirage so far…

http://statspeak.net dan

Montero at DH, Romine behind the plate tonight.

El Generalissimo

I was watching it last year, and it’s not a given on every night, but it seems like the majority of games last year Montero hit much better as a DH. It’s definitely something to watch for.

Jim

Just woundering is Hughes starting for AAA today?
Also is Brett Marshall starting for Charlston today

Frank

Is it possible Angelini could commit more errors this year than he did last year? Looking at the box score you would think he’s at a disadvantage somehow; like playing without a glove, or he’s physically handicapped somehow; like his left arm is 4 inches shorter than his right.